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Speaker 1: from now. Miami Marlins home opener against the Orioles has
Speaker 1: been postponed. They have fourteen members of the team that
Speaker 1: have tested positive. They're still in Philadelphia, not sure when
Speaker 1: they're getting back home. They're supposed to have another game
Speaker 1: against the Orioles tomorrow, then they go to Baltimore for
Speaker 1: two more games there. The Phillies Yankees game has been
Speaker 1: postponed tonight because the Marlins were just there in Philadelphia
Speaker 1: facing the Phillies and now the Yankees come to town.
Speaker 1: Other than that, how's your Monday? We talked a little
Speaker 1: bit about the Jamal Adams trade. We loved with sassa
Speaker 1: grade who won, who lost? And I would say Seattle
Speaker 1: one because they got something right now. I don't know
Speaker 1: what the Jets are going to do with these draft picks,
Speaker 1: but you get Jamal Adams, who is a marquee player,
Speaker 1: and you have a run first defensive minded team in Seattle,
Speaker 1: and Pete Carroll got himself another great safety. And this
Speaker 1: is a team that's competing for a Super Bowl, was
Speaker 1: competing for a Super Bowl prior to this, and now
Speaker 1: you add Jamal Adams and you added him. Basically, I
Speaker 1: think to compete against the forty nine Ers twice during
Speaker 1: the regular season because he's great at rushing the passer, running,
Speaker 1: stopping the running game. And I would just say to him,
Speaker 1: when we play the Niners, meet your best friend George
Speaker 1: Kittle on the other side of the ball. But just
Speaker 1: some of the thoughts that I had and that I
Speaker 1: don't know what the Jets do with the draft picks.
Speaker 1: They have a new GM who came from the Ravens,
Speaker 1: Joe Douglas, and he was with Philadelphia as well and
Speaker 1: has a good pedigree here, and maybe they're able to
Speaker 1: use these draft picks to get some impact players. You're
Speaker 1: gonna get somebody in twenty third, twenty four, twenty fifth
Speaker 1: pick overall because pencil in Seattle for nine, ten, maybe
Speaker 1: eleven wins this year, and I understand it. Seattle's trying
Speaker 1: to win now with Russell Wilson. I get it, and
Speaker 1: the Jets they are going to finish last again this year.
Speaker 1: They have nothing to show for this their draft picks
Speaker 1: since what twenty ten? They have nothing to show for this.
Speaker 1: They have Sam Darnold. That's basically it when it comes
Speaker 1: to first round picks. I don't like their coach and
Speaker 1: Adam Gase. I feel like he's more of a coordinator
Speaker 1: than a coach. But they won seven games last year. Shocker.
Speaker 1: They somehow won seven games. I don't know if they
Speaker 1: were trying to win seven, but they won seven games
Speaker 1: last year. The Astros have lost Justin Burlander. He says
Speaker 1: that it's just maybe for a week, but it could
Speaker 1: be more serious than that. Lou Williams is out for
Speaker 1: the Clipper. He had gone to a strip club for
Speaker 1: takeout with Wings, and he has been on record as
Speaker 1: saying that he loves Magic City. He loves the Wings.
Speaker 1: It's his favorite restaurant in the world, not the United States,
Speaker 1: not Atlanta, the world. So it must have been worth
Speaker 1: it for Lou Williams of the Clippers, and I would
Speaker 1: not allow him back in the bubble. I know that
Speaker 1: you have to because of the Union. I would not
Speaker 1: let Lou Williams back in the bubble. I'd basically say
Speaker 1: to him, Lou, enjoy the Wings. Hope you watch the
Speaker 1: TV and enjoy the Clippers as they move forward. The
Speaker 1: NBA begins in three days, and I guess, you know,
Speaker 1: if you're the NBA, you're holding your breath. But you're
Speaker 1: in the bubble. You know, occasionally have guys who are
Speaker 1: going to do these things. But you know, I think
Speaker 1: the commissioner is cautiously optimistic about this season. It's not
Speaker 1: starting on time, it's will you see it through to completion.
Speaker 1: I don't see how baseball completes this season. I just don't.
Speaker 1: I mean, we're we're not even a week in. I
Speaker 1: just I don't know how you're able to do it
Speaker 1: because there is no bubble. And at the time we
Speaker 1: wondered could the NBA pull this off with a bubble?
Speaker 1: The NHL with a bubble. And it feels like they've
Speaker 1: cut down on you know, the you know, the percentages,
Speaker 1: the negative percentages, the risk that's there, and they'll get
Speaker 1: this season off on time. But it's been kind of
Speaker 1: crazy here with what's going on. Major League Baseball deciding
Speaker 1: that they're going to cancel the h the Phillies and
Speaker 1: the Yankees game. You know, the Marlins are stuck in Philadelphia.
Speaker 1: Guys are gonna have to get tested. When can you
Speaker 1: fly home? Do you fly home? Can you go to Baltimore?
Speaker 1: And then what's going to happen to these games? At
Speaker 1: some point the commissioner has to say, this is survival
Speaker 1: of the fittest. If you're not healthy enough to field
Speaker 1: a team, then you forfeit the game. You've got sixty games,
Speaker 1: You've got sixty seven days, and you start to do
Speaker 1: the math. You can only postpone, cancel a couple of these.
Speaker 1: Then you have to start issuing forfeits. But this hurts
Speaker 1: the Orioles as well. And I know it's the Marlins
Speaker 1: and the Orioles, but if this was Philadelphia and the
Speaker 1: Yankees the game tonight, or the Dodgers are involved in this,
Speaker 1: then all of a sudden, this would be a big deal.
Speaker 1: But because it's the Marlins, we go, oh, it's the Marlins.
Speaker 1: They can't do anything right. No, this is doesn't matter
Speaker 1: the name of the team. It's what's going on in
Speaker 1: Major League Baseball and the fact that they allowed them
Speaker 1: to play the game over the weekend. Why did the
Speaker 1: Marlins play baseball on Sunday and let me refresh your memory,
Speaker 1: because multiple sources confirmed that the Marlins played despite having
Speaker 1: three players learn Sunday that they had tested positive, just
Speaker 1: two days after a fourth player learned of a possible
Speaker 1: test on Friday. The Athletic talked to two infectious disease specialists,
Speaker 1: who told the Athletic on Sunday that those positive tests
Speaker 1: fit the definition of a quote clear outbreak of the
Speaker 1: virus within the team. Sources said those tests were not
Speaker 1: enough for either Major League Baseball or the club itself
Speaker 1: to give serious consideration postponing the game. You didn't give
Speaker 1: it serious consideration. How many do I need for serious consideration?
Speaker 1: I'm guessing you gave a consideration, but serious consideration. No,
Speaker 1: we need to have more than four. God all right, Uh,
Speaker 1: let me see but poll question, mclovan, are we going
Speaker 1: to stay with the Jamal Adams polution? People said the
Speaker 1: Seahawks say the Seahawks won Jamal Adams trade for This
Speaker 1: is from PAULI. This is off the Lou Williams story.
Speaker 1: You have to eat one of these kinds of foods
Speaker 1: airplane food, strip club food, Delhi buffet food like New
Speaker 1: York City Delhi buffet or gas station hot food, you know,
Speaker 1: like a hot dog on a rotisserie at a circle
Speaker 1: K and Scottsdale, where you're going in a seven eleven
Speaker 1: two when you see those hot dogs and whether they
Speaker 1: they sort of resemble a hot dog only malnourished airplane
Speaker 1: food is very bland. It's it's only because you're in
Speaker 1: a controlled environment. It never works out well, if you
Speaker 1: know what I mean, Yes, Todd, When I was a kid,
Speaker 1: I got a hot dog once out of a bowling
Speaker 1: alley machine when they used to have such things like that.
Speaker 1: And I heat it up like it said too in
Speaker 1: the little that they provided in the corner by lane
Speaker 1: twelve or whatever. And I don't know if you know,
Speaker 1: like remember the gob stoppers had two different colors on
Speaker 1: the outside. I had that pinkish brown hot dog look,
Speaker 1: but then there was like a little green ring. I
Speaker 1: took a bite, not to make anybody brought a lunchtime
Speaker 1: on the East Coast, But that was nast Did you
Speaker 1: finish it? I may have had a couple more bites.
Speaker 1: I don't think I ate the whole thing. Break. I
Speaker 1: just want to make sure to see how far deep
Speaker 1: the green line went. Wow, you're not throw it out
Speaker 1: of you. I was really hungry. Yeah, but these were
Speaker 1: the machines where you put the money and press the
Speaker 1: button exactly. Then you would have to heat it up.
Speaker 1: I can't beeve had that thing. But back then you
Speaker 1: can get like a hot dog, gray Hamburger, pizza in
Speaker 1: a machine like at a coin operating machine and pull
Speaker 1: it out of there. Yes, strip club food, you never
Speaker 1: think that there's going to be a high end, award
Speaker 1: winning chef working back in the kitchen. It doesn't seem
Speaker 1: like a place that where a high end chef aspire.
Speaker 1: Chef Ramsey didn't Gordon Ramsey didn't start in a strip crow.
Speaker 1: I don't think they didn't. I don't know. So I've
Speaker 1: never had a meal. I've never had a lunch or
Speaker 1: dinner in a strip club. Now I've been with a
Speaker 1: guy who ordered a steak. He ordered a huge steak,
Speaker 1: and um, I just thought, okay, I think I might
Speaker 1: have seen it all now and he made Why what
Speaker 1: else do you gain? Yeah? He made no apologies. He
Speaker 1: goes man mistake here is great. Now. He a former
Speaker 1: former baseball player, and you know he knew the the
Speaker 1: strip club. I don't know if you went with this. Remember,
Speaker 1: I had to make a deal. I can't mention I
Speaker 1: shouldn't mention the name. But I had to make a
Speaker 1: deal that I would go to the strip club for
Speaker 1: thirty minutes this Nope, no, no, not that one. I
Speaker 1: had to go. I said, you know, we were going
Speaker 1: to go to a bar in Atlanta. I think it
Speaker 1: was Fido's or something like that. In Yeah, and the
Speaker 1: guy we were with said, I want to go to
Speaker 1: Cheetah three. And I said, all right, thirty minutes. And
Speaker 1: we get there and he walks in and he is
Speaker 1: going to town. Everybody knows him, and he's like, you know,
Speaker 1: so I get stuck. Well, I'm waiting for him and
Speaker 1: the clock is running, and now we're at forty five minutes.
Speaker 1: He goes, oh, I can't leave. I ordered steak. I said, okay.
Speaker 1: I meet a woman, a dancer who is from Kentucky.
Speaker 1: And she says, I can see your soul through your eyes.
Speaker 1: And I went, get me out of here, get me
Speaker 1: out of here. She says, I hear you're from Cincinnati.
Speaker 1: We're really close. And I went, no, I don't think
Speaker 1: So he goes, yeah, Florence, Kentucky and Cincinnati really close.
Speaker 1: I said, but I don't live there anymore. And then
Speaker 1: she said, I can see your soul through your eyes.
Speaker 1: Check plays, yes, Todd. I was at a strip club
Speaker 1: in Kentucky once for a friend's wedding, and I can
Speaker 1: remember some women came up to us, not to particularly attractive,
Speaker 1: might have had some dental issues. Mak turned again, making
Speaker 1: could have a dollar, and it was just very, very frightening.
Speaker 1: I don't know why we left the heading in the
Speaker 1: middle in our tuxedos to go into a strip club
Speaker 1: a couple of blocks away, but we did my turn
Speaker 1: to get naked. Thank You's about the size of like
Speaker 1: your average offensive line was just not a good show.
Speaker 1: Alrighty man, can we get sidetracked on this program? We
Speaker 1: lead the league in getting sidetracked here. I meant, well
Speaker 1: when I started this hour, I did. We gave you
Speaker 1: our best and worst of the weekend. A couple more
Speaker 1: phone calls in here, Mike and Iowa joining us on
Speaker 1: the program. Good morning, Mike, what do you have for
Speaker 1: me today? Mike Iowa? Five eleven two eighty, thank you,
Speaker 1: best of the weekend. Kyle Hendrick's complete game shutout. I
Speaker 1: know you already talked about it, so we don't need
Speaker 1: to harp on that one. But the worst of the
Speaker 1: weekend is that the MLB is still holding fast and
Speaker 1: true to their blackout rules. Oh yeah, I know I
Speaker 1: saw that. Thank you, Mike. I just don't know why
Speaker 1: you had to Hendricks go the entire game like a
Speaker 1: complete game three hitter. He pitched against the White Sox
Speaker 1: in one of their spring training games. I love watching
Speaker 1: him pitch because he's one of those pitchers. He doesn't
Speaker 1: overwhelm you with velocity, but man, can he just pitch
Speaker 1: the very smart pitcher. And so at the first complete
Speaker 1: game of this I don't think there's gonna be if
Speaker 1: I said over under complete games and I said five
Speaker 1: by any pitcher, Yeah, no total over the whole for
Speaker 1: the whole season. You might be right. I don't know
Speaker 1: how many teams are gonna go. Yeah, let me send
Speaker 1: him back out there because you need all hands on
Speaker 1: deck in his sixty games. Sprint here George in Arizona, George,
Speaker 1: Welcome to the program. How are you doing, Dan? Great? George.
Speaker 1: I tell you I had a wonderful weekend and it
Speaker 1: was because of our team, the Diamondbacks. The first day
Speaker 1: the Weather, a great new pitcher. He blew it in
Speaker 1: the sixth inning and we lost the second game, the
Speaker 1: same thing we lost. Then last night, in the very
Speaker 1: very end of the game, the last three or four innings,
Speaker 1: we came through, we started hitting, and we won the game.
Speaker 1: In about an hour we play again, so I'm hoping.
Speaker 1: And then later on I saw the Suns. So that's
Speaker 1: two in a row. Well, that sounds like a full
Speaker 1: weekend there, George, sounds like a great weekend. Thanks for
Speaker 1: the phone call. There, read a book, and I got
Speaker 1: some work done on my toes. It's the big one's
Speaker 1: been acted up again. I call Chuck, then the Oldsmobile.
Speaker 1: He's gonna put it the rest. And then when in
Speaker 1: North Carolina, Hi, Win, what do you have for me today? Hey? Dan?
Speaker 1: How are you great? Are you watching the show? As usual?
Speaker 1: I'm gonna start off with the worst of the weekend,
Speaker 1: which is the passing of Peter Green, who founded Fleetwood Mac.
Speaker 1: And he was the best blues guitarist of his era,
Speaker 1: and that includes Clapton. Unfortunately, when he left Fleetwood Mac
Speaker 1: became the bubblegum machine that we know all too well.
Speaker 1: All right, the best was the Yankees playing this weekend
Speaker 1: and me being able to listen to John Sterling and
Speaker 1: Susan Waldman called the games. I just loved them, and
Speaker 1: just says an aside to that, I cannot believe the
Speaker 1: incredibly poor judgment of whoever let the Marlins play? Thank
Speaker 1: you win? Yeah, I mean that that is a big
Speaker 1: story right now, because I don't know who the Phillies
Speaker 1: came in contact with the Marlins. Yeah, Peter Green was
Speaker 1: the founder of Fleetwood Mac and it was a completely
Speaker 1: a different sounding group. So he had Mick Fleetwood, the drummer,
Speaker 1: Peter Green, they started Fleetwood Mac. I did not realize this,
Speaker 1: but the Santana song Black Magic Woman was written by
Speaker 1: Peter Green, I believe of Fleetwood Mac. But he was
Speaker 1: a great blues guitarist, and in that era, you know,
Speaker 1: when you had Clapton and some of these other great
Speaker 1: guitar players, Peter Green was right there held his own. Yeah,
Speaker 1: mcle why didn't he get his name in the band
Speaker 1: If it's a Fleetwood Mac, I don't know why he
Speaker 1: didn't call it, you know, Fleetwood Green, Fleetwood or Fleetwood
Speaker 1: Green or something like that. But didn't they bring in
Speaker 1: John McVie, the bass player and maybe that was the
Speaker 1: Fleetwood and then they all intermarried and stuff, right, are
Speaker 1: there all the drama? Well, Christine McVie was married to
Speaker 1: John McVie, but then they got divorced. Mick Fleetwood, I
Speaker 1: think when out was v Knicks, but then you had
Speaker 1: Lindsey Buckingham who was dating Stevie Nicks as well. Other
Speaker 1: than that, if you don't know the band, you're not
Speaker 1: sure if Lindsay is a man or a Lindsay is
Speaker 1: a man, very handsome man. Yeah, so I just happened. Now,
Speaker 1: I'm not familiar with Peter Green, so you know, immediately
Speaker 1: went to Wikipedia and it's it's very long. So I
Speaker 1: just started scrolling down real quick, and the sentence that
Speaker 1: I landed on, it's a very small paragraph, but it
Speaker 1: says Green's bandmates began to notice changes in a state
Speaker 1: of mind. He was taking large doses of LSD, grew
Speaker 1: a beard and began to wear robes in a crucifix
Speaker 1: Mick Fleetwood recross Green becoming concerned about accumulating wealth. I
Speaker 1: had conversations with Peter Green around that time, and he
Speaker 1: was obsessive about us not making any money, wanting us
Speaker 1: to give it all away, and I'd say, well, you
Speaker 1: could do that. I don't want to do that, and
Speaker 1: that doesn't make me a bad person. So that's when
Speaker 1: they started to take note of his demeanor, a robe
Speaker 1: across and large quantities of LSD. Yeah, and didn't want
Speaker 1: any money. Okay, you know, Peter, I think we're gonna
Speaker 1: go in a different direction. Peter. I think we're gonna
Speaker 1: go to pop music this time. And I think the
Speaker 1: blues you're taking them a little too seriously, Peter, put
Speaker 1: away the CITs are and get on board. Man. All right,
Speaker 1: we'll take a break. John Smoltz will join us coming
Speaker 1: up next. Maybe he's got some thoughts on what baseball
Speaker 1: should be doing now and at what point do you
Speaker 1: start forfeitting games with these teams? Nineteen after the hour.
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Speaker 1: Eastern today he's John Smoltz back with the program. John.
Speaker 1: Pretty eventful Monday here considering the Yankees and Phillies has
Speaker 1: been postponed. The Marlins can't fly home from Philadelphia. They
Speaker 1: got fourteen members of the organization who tested positive. And
Speaker 1: we don't know about the Phillies anybody who came in
Speaker 1: contact with them other than that. How's your Monday? Yeah,
Speaker 1: this is not It's not obviously the news you want
Speaker 1: to have when a baseball season is getting ready to
Speaker 1: be one of the most exciting seasons ever I know.
Speaker 1: Going into this Baseball hats so many different protocols and
Speaker 1: scenarios that if things came up, they had the luxury
Speaker 1: of moving a team out of a hot spot or
Speaker 1: so on. You know, you just hope that the certain
Speaker 1: trends that have happened the last couple of weeks, guys
Speaker 1: seem to be getting over it really quickly, and there
Speaker 1: hasn't been any real setbacks there. But when you have
Speaker 1: a high number and one team that is a concern.
Speaker 1: I'm going to remain optimistic because I think if everybody
Speaker 1: keeps pulling in the right direction and adheres to the protocols,
Speaker 1: maybe this is just a little bit of a blip.
Speaker 1: But it's certainly it's certainly a number that no franchise
Speaker 1: or team wants to have happened at any point in
Speaker 1: the season yet alone really early. But I'm wondering, John,
Speaker 1: at one point, these are games that are postponed, But
Speaker 1: at what point do they become forfeits Because we only
Speaker 1: have we have a finite number of days, and we
Speaker 1: know we have sixty games to get those games in.
Speaker 1: I don't know how much wiggle room is there from
Speaker 1: Major League Baseball to extend the regular season as far
Speaker 1: as dates go. Yeah, I mean, it is a it's
Speaker 1: a tough it's a quandary, right, I mean, if this
Speaker 1: was multiple teams, I think the answer would be a
Speaker 1: lot easier. It's it's right now one team, and I
Speaker 1: don't think that unless it just continues to be more
Speaker 1: of an issue. I think the best way to address
Speaker 1: it is to move on in a cautious way and
Speaker 1: let your roster you pick up the pieces until those
Speaker 1: guys can get cleared. And that's going to be an
Speaker 1: interesting in the next couple of days to see what
Speaker 1: you just said if the other teams don't have any
Speaker 1: traces of this, and my hope is that it is
Speaker 1: an isolated and one off scenario. I hate it for
Speaker 1: the Marlins, I hate it for anyone that's got to
Speaker 1: go through it, but hopefully it's a quick one and
Speaker 1: hopefully it's one of those scenarios where people talk about
Speaker 1: already that have been asymptomatic, have had no real issues
Speaker 1: and have come back pretty quickly. I don't know if
Speaker 1: it's a coincidence or not, but former Cy Young winners
Speaker 1: didn't have a good weekend. Now you already have David
Speaker 1: Price and Felix Hernandez who aren't even pitching this season.
Speaker 1: Clayton Kershaw tweaks his back, Corey Kluber and Justin Verlander
Speaker 1: looks like their head to the injury list. Just the
Speaker 1: whole process here of these starting pitchers trying to get
Speaker 1: you guys are creatures a habit, and you know, to
Speaker 1: try to hit the ground running. No real spring training here,
Speaker 1: or you had one and interrupted by four months. I mean,
Speaker 1: is this alarming to you with what you're seeing with
Speaker 1: some of these marquee pitchers? John, Yeah, you know, I
Speaker 1: hope not. And because here's what would be my battlecry
Speaker 1: if I was still playing and talking to my team,
Speaker 1: I would say this, Look, we can't be paralyzed by
Speaker 1: the what if scenarios. We've got to do the best
Speaker 1: we can to be in shape. I'm really, actually pleasantly
Speaker 1: surprised by the shape everybody's in and really how everybody
Speaker 1: has been. As if there haven't missed any time, you're
Speaker 1: always going to have See here's the problem. Every normal year,
Speaker 1: there's going to be injuries. A matter of fact, I've
Speaker 1: said this forever. Baseball has never addressed really the injury
Speaker 1: epidemic that has happened because there's so many pieces and
Speaker 1: so many people who pick up there's so many talented players.
Speaker 1: So when you have this scenario and it's going to
Speaker 1: be magnified, everyone's going to watch for everything. I think
Speaker 1: the natural thing to do is say, well, it's because
Speaker 1: of this the teams that bond together and the teams
Speaker 1: that overcome. Whenever it is about being this year being uncomfortable,
Speaker 1: I honestly think are going to have a huge advantage
Speaker 1: even if their roster isn't the best roster going into
Speaker 1: the season. So I think everyone's got a watchful eye
Speaker 1: for everything that pops up, and I want to believe
Speaker 1: that this is just an isolated incident. Unfortunately, and maybe
Speaker 1: not as bad as first reported. And then show hey
Speaker 1: Otani who hadn't been on the mound for twenty months
Speaker 1: out doesn't even register and out coming back from Tommy
Speaker 1: John surgery. Yeah, that one was that some more to
Speaker 1: do with having pitched, having not pitched in a long time, right.
Speaker 1: I think having gone through Tommy John surgery and coming
Speaker 1: back in eleven months, I wasn't quite where I needed
Speaker 1: to be. After four games. I think he's going to
Speaker 1: be fine because he's had a lot of time of rest,
Speaker 1: But there's a lot of rust. And here's the one
Speaker 1: thing He could do that no other pitcher can do.
Speaker 1: He can make up for that lackluster performance with a
Speaker 1: couple home runs. The next time he gets to the plate,
Speaker 1: he could take it out on the baseball. This is
Speaker 1: a special kid, And you know, I just think that
Speaker 1: the only problem he's going to have is wait six
Speaker 1: more days to get back on the mound. He just
Speaker 1: didn't let the ball go, and it's natural you tell
Speaker 1: yourself to let it go. The ball came out cutting.
Speaker 1: These are all buy products to coming back from Tommy
Speaker 1: John that after you get reps, you'll be fine. Any
Speaker 1: surprises so far, anything stand out? Yeah. The biggest thing
Speaker 1: I really can't wait to watch is the limited games
Speaker 1: give these teams that may not be able to sustain
Speaker 1: the pitching over one sixty two. I think the easy
Speaker 1: pick that everybody was talking about could be a surprise.
Speaker 1: San Diego Padres. They have a tremendous bullpen, They've got
Speaker 1: young pitching that may or may not have been able
Speaker 1: to sustain itself over one sixty two. I just think
Speaker 1: this bodes well for what I've always tried to tell you.
Speaker 1: I'm an advocate for an that's the split seasons that
Speaker 1: gives everybody a little a little race to have a
Speaker 1: competitive chance, and I hope we can go without any
Speaker 1: more hiccups, because you're going to talk about this year
Speaker 1: at the end of baseball, and you'll remember this year
Speaker 1: for a lot of things, and hopefully it's because it's
Speaker 1: the most exciting sixty games you've ever seen. He's John Smoltz,
Speaker 1: the Hall of Famer, Major League Baseball Network analyst. Angels
Speaker 1: A's on MLB Network at three thirty Eastern. The smallest
Speaker 1: crowd you ever pitched in front of was easily Atlanta
Speaker 1: Bres three years. Probably five hundred and seventy. People tried
Speaker 1: counting them when I was on the mountain, so that
Speaker 1: tells you I wasn't really locked into the game. I
Speaker 1: heard the vendors, I heard the lights buzzing, I heard
Speaker 1: everybody ragging me. It was a very difficult time the
Speaker 1: first couple of years putting on a bradish uniform. Everyone
Speaker 1: talked about I'll never forget, you know, showing up excited
Speaker 1: about being in the big leagues. I went to a
Speaker 1: local comedy club and the first forty five minutes was
Speaker 1: on the Atlanta Braves, and I mean people wore fall
Speaker 1: out of their seats lapping. I had to get out,
Speaker 1: and they just always used to say this would be
Speaker 1: a great year to paint the seats because nobody was there.
Speaker 1: So it is distracting. My first three years in the
Speaker 1: big leagues. I couldn't do what they're doing right now.
Speaker 1: It would take so much adjustment for me, and I
Speaker 1: learned how to lock in and challenge myself in games
Speaker 1: that rid baby, you found yourself drifting. That's the biggest
Speaker 1: challenge for a lot of guys is their personalities may
Speaker 1: not fit for this. Like a guy who plays with
Speaker 1: the motion and by the seat of his pan is
Speaker 1: going to have to recreate that. That's hard for him.
Speaker 1: But the guy like a clueber or someone who's just
Speaker 1: laid back, this is no big deal, like this would
Speaker 1: be a great environment. I think personalities have a lot
Speaker 1: to do with how guys will deal with this tim
Speaker 1: in this atmosphere. Well, you also have that downtime, like
Speaker 1: what do you do in today's world major League Baseball
Speaker 1: as opposed to I mean back there in Atlanta, you
Speaker 1: at least had Atlanta. But these guys have to really
Speaker 1: self police themselves. Yeah, that is exactly right, and that
Speaker 1: goes back to where I would have that team meeting
Speaker 1: and just encourage guys to whatever creativity we could come
Speaker 1: up with on our time away. Adhering to the protocols,
Speaker 1: that would be the challenge. And that's the teams that
Speaker 1: do that are going to be the teams that have
Speaker 1: the most advantage of getting through this, because what you
Speaker 1: don't want in a long season and a long journey,
Speaker 1: you get teams that drift and players that drift. You
Speaker 1: don't want that if three weeks out, like it's real
Speaker 1: easy to have your season go in the wrong way
Speaker 1: because you don't have much time for your statistical categories
Speaker 1: and or have a bad week, go two and eight
Speaker 1: as a team and you start feeling like, you know,
Speaker 1: you just throw your season away. That's going to be
Speaker 1: the challenge for managers more so than information, more so
Speaker 1: than strategy, and that's what's gonna make this kind of unique.
Speaker 1: You just hope people and players do what they gotta do.
Speaker 1: It's a shorter time and shoot the trade deadlines in
Speaker 1: five weeks, so there's a lot of things that are
Speaker 1: set up. I saw where you played golf in Tahoe
Speaker 1: with Clements and Maddox. Yeah, if you were going to
Speaker 1: build the perfect picture out of you three, so you
Speaker 1: could take whatever you wanted from each one. What do
Speaker 1: you take from Clements? Well, just you know, I would
Speaker 1: take Clements and Maddox and more from into one because
Speaker 1: it's the ultimate control power scenario. I mean, that would
Speaker 1: be the machine that would be tough to ever be.
Speaker 1: You've got the power of Clements, the precision of Maddox,
Speaker 1: and you did you start your franchise with. I'll give
Speaker 1: you Maddox or Clemens? Wow, oh man? In today's baseball, Well,
Speaker 1: you know what, that's a great question that everyone says, well,
Speaker 1: you know, Greg Maddox would would be exposed or glad
Speaker 1: and be exposed today. I totally disagree. I think Maddox
Speaker 1: would be the same picture and have more strikeouts because
Speaker 1: his ability to hit spots where a guy's trying to swing.
Speaker 1: You got to understand, errors are difficult to compare because
Speaker 1: everybody today is swinging with a launch angle angle, and
Speaker 1: he's going to get the ball under the barrel of
Speaker 1: the bat as easily as anybody else, and so everything's
Speaker 1: going to be kind of Yeah, he may give up
Speaker 1: a few more home runs, but his ability to miss bats,
Speaker 1: that's my one argument, I would make that argument, and
Speaker 1: the Saint Louis Cardinals back in the day when they
Speaker 1: used to not hit home runs and run, would still
Speaker 1: have success because it would be so difficult to defend
Speaker 1: them and so difficult to try to lock in on
Speaker 1: Maddox because this ball moves somebody. I just wonder, John,
Speaker 1: at some point, do we have somebody who's it's counterintuitive
Speaker 1: that they decide that they're going to play small ball,
Speaker 1: that the ballpark is a pitchers ballpark and we're going
Speaker 1: to have guys who run, and just it'll be different.
Speaker 1: You'll save money too. You don't have to spend money
Speaker 1: on home run hitters here, and you're playing eighty one
Speaker 1: games at home, so that is a true home field advantage.
Speaker 1: I don't know. I just I wonder if somebody goes
Speaker 1: the heck with just hitting home runs, we're going to
Speaker 1: play a different style of baseball. I totally agree, and
Speaker 1: you're gonna get some teams actually doing that. I know
Speaker 1: Kansas City talked about in there be Buil to try
Speaker 1: and get back to a little bit of that. They're
Speaker 1: playing a big ballpark. You know, you think the one
Speaker 1: thing that nobody really you wouldn't think Colorado would go
Speaker 1: to that because obviously that's a master's park, But think
Speaker 1: how big that park is, and if you had speed,
Speaker 1: you put more pressure on the teams. I totally agree
Speaker 1: with you. I think it's taken a while for teams
Speaker 1: to do that, but you're going to find that the
Speaker 1: teams are going to have to dig a little bit
Speaker 1: when everyone's zagging and and I'm looking forward to because
Speaker 1: that adjustment would be for a lot of teams. They
Speaker 1: would look at it. We just don't showcase enough of
Speaker 1: the guy's talent at times. There's guys that can run,
Speaker 1: there's weapons that we kind of hold in and because
Speaker 1: of analytics at times don't allow those packages to be unwrapped.
Speaker 1: When's the one time when you gave up a home
Speaker 1: run and you just went that guy took me deep.
Speaker 1: I'm embarrassed. Oh my gosh, there's I'm infamous for the
Speaker 1: Jose Lean not hitting a home run in twenty five
Speaker 1: hundred at bats and I gave him up. I gave
Speaker 1: one up to him. Like every time I see Bence Coleman,
Speaker 1: he's like, I can't believe you threw that slider down
Speaker 1: and he hadn't hit a home run in thousand at bats,
Speaker 1: and I gave one. It was it was Chucky Carr. Like,
Speaker 1: I could go on and on for the guys that
Speaker 1: I didn't think could hit a home run, and I
Speaker 1: did them the apps, I like did them the biggest
Speaker 1: favor they could do. Well, you hit their bat. I
Speaker 1: think there's bad I think so like, like, there's no
Speaker 1: shame in giving up a home run to Bonds. No,
Speaker 1: not at all. No. I mean that's that's that's part
Speaker 1: of the game. And you know those guys are going
Speaker 1: to hit. Like flash pitching today, there's no doubt. I
Speaker 1: would be on the leaderboard for some of the farthest
Speaker 1: given there's no doubt, and I would have no problem
Speaker 1: with that. It's the wall scrapers. It's the ones that
Speaker 1: you're just kind of hoping, but I did. There were
Speaker 1: times where I sat on the mound and go really like,
Speaker 1: I just did that. So guys have got their um
Speaker 1: first hits off of me a lot Like career, I
Speaker 1: threw more balls back to the dugout for career first
Speaker 1: hits and that that was starting to become a running
Speaker 1: joke in the team. But yeah, those things I remember
Speaker 1: that you're you're starting to sound like a modern day
Speaker 1: Bob Uker, but you're a Hall of Famer. Uker's a
Speaker 1: Hall of Fame announcer here. You well, those are the
Speaker 1: things that stick out, you know more than ever you're
Speaker 1: you don't know this guy. My favorite story is like
Speaker 1: I Chipper and I played for a hundred years, and
Speaker 1: one of the things I would always do every time.
Speaker 1: You know, he was had this unbelievable mind for recognizing
Speaker 1: and remembering, especially when he was at the plate and
Speaker 1: Jan Castro was playing for the Dodgers. It was out
Speaker 1: in LA and I had no clue about this guy,
Speaker 1: and I didn't know what what he could do. So
Speaker 1: I called him over and I said, hey, what do
Speaker 1: I do? You know? What's this guy like? He goes, ah,
Speaker 1: he's a slap hitter. Just go after him with a fastball,
Speaker 1: first pitch line drive off my wrists into center field.
Speaker 1: Fractured my wrist. I had to come out of the gate,
Speaker 1: and I said, don't worry about ever coming over to
Speaker 1: the mountain. Just stick to what you're doing. It was
Speaker 1: the way I just I couldn't believe it. He said, well,
Speaker 1: I didn't tell you to throw it right down. The middle.
Speaker 1: He said it was a slap hitter, and you probably
Speaker 1: and you guys are so crazy that you probably remember
Speaker 1: like counts that you know you'll go, oh so three one,
Speaker 1: like Vince Coleman hit a home run off of you.
Speaker 1: Do you remember the count? You said it was a
Speaker 1: slider down. Yeah, I had two strikes out of me
Speaker 1: bunch of pastballs and he said, he goes, there's no
Speaker 1: chance I was catching your basketball and you threw me
Speaker 1: a down and in slider and I just kind of
Speaker 1: scooped it. So yeah, oh god, I love the memory.
Speaker 1: You can't remember if your wife tells you to get
Speaker 1: something at the grocery store, correct, but you can tell
Speaker 1: me the count when Bonds hit the incredible home runoff
Speaker 1: of you that you still can't believe it. Yep. That's
Speaker 1: I wish I had that kind of capacity in school
Speaker 1: to remember remember things like that. Have fun today, John,
Speaker 1: hope you're well and thanks for joining us. All right,
Speaker 1: I hope everyone stay safe. That's John Small. It's all
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Speaker 1: The stay in Sports History coming on. Patrick Mahomes, the
Speaker 1: Chiefs quarterback, talked about his concerns going into training camp
Speaker 1: with COVID nineteen, and this is part of the interview
Speaker 1: that he had on a conference call. Definitely, there's gonna
Speaker 1: be a little concern. You would be lying to say
Speaker 1: you have no concern. But at the same time, as
Speaker 1: I've been throughout the facility now the last night and
Speaker 1: then a little bit today and seeing all the protocols
Speaker 1: and all the safety things that Rick and all these
Speaker 1: guys that put forth, it's really kind of made me
Speaker 1: feel It's made me feel even better than I thought
Speaker 1: coming in, knowing how much that the NFL and NFLPA
Speaker 1: has really put into making sure that we could be
Speaker 1: as safe as we possibly can be. And so that's
Speaker 1: kind of put my mind at ease of knowing that
Speaker 1: I'm gonna be in the best hossible situation given the time,
Speaker 1: to be as safe and as healthy as possible. Stay, pas,
Speaker 1: let me let me hear your very safe. I thought seton,
Speaker 1: do you do a little better now, because I was
Speaker 1: just thinking about how, like, the most important football player
Speaker 1: of a generation now is absolutely never coming on this
Speaker 1: show ever again. Yeah, now that Andrew lux gone, let's
Speaker 1: offend the new youngest space of the most popular sport.
Speaker 1: He's got a sense you, well, we've already done it,
Speaker 1: so we might as well continue. I'm very wealthy. M
Speaker 1: What do you have seen? I don't have one. You're
Speaker 1: not gonna do it anymore. I don't know that I
Speaker 1: ever did. Wait, I thought I thought you did. It's
Speaker 1: a lot easy. Yeah, I vaguely remember somebody sitting in
Speaker 1: that chair. That's Todd's bit. That's Todd Fritz's bit. I
Speaker 1: really that was at least as cool I think, so
Speaker 1: it might have been better. No, I'm not the impressions
Speaker 1: guy on the show. That's speaky. Alrighty phone calls here
Speaker 1: this day in sports history, all of that coming up.
Speaker 1: Barry in New York joining us, Hey, Barry, what's on
Speaker 1: your mind. Good morning fellas five nine nine, Thank you.
Speaker 1: Best of the weekend. The Mets put cut out cardboard
Speaker 1: cutouts of some of the players dogs in right field
Speaker 1: this weekend. Worst of the weekend Jeff a bit Niel's
Speaker 1: dog got hitting the snout with a great I didn't
Speaker 1: see that. Thanks for the phone called. Barry Stephen Florida
Speaker 1: joins us Hi, Steve, what do you have for me?
Speaker 1: Hey Dan, It's good to talk to you again. My
Speaker 1: best is the Yankees, They're looking pretty good. My worst
Speaker 1: is I met up with some of my buddies I
Speaker 1: haven't seen in years. And my middle name is Benjamin
Speaker 1: and my last name is Dale. So all through the
Speaker 1: card game a man Ben Day all lost again Ben
Speaker 1: Day Hall one and you know I took They would
Speaker 1: forget about it, but thank you for the phone call.
Speaker 1: Stay forget about it. Brian in Indiana joins us Hi, Brian,
Speaker 1: Hey Dan, five eleven two ten, Thank you, sir. Best
Speaker 1: of the weekend Tigers taken two hundred three from the Rants.
Speaker 1: Worst of the weekend was one of the games. Tom
Speaker 1: Brennaman was comparing one of the players to Jack Clark,
Speaker 1: and he went on to say that he thought Jack
Speaker 1: Clark had passed away. Oh, Jack Clark was alive and well.
Speaker 1: And I went to Jack Clark's Wikipedia page in the
Speaker 1: first line says Jack Clark, who Tom Brennaman killed July
Speaker 1: twenty fifth, twenty That's good. Yeah, Pau buddy of mine
Speaker 1: worked at the NBC News, the news desk years and
Speaker 1: years ago in late nineties, and they did a scroll
Speaker 1: that said Joe Dimajua passed away. Joe Dimaju was sitting
Speaker 1: at home with his lawyer next to him, watching the game,
Speaker 1: the All Star Game or whatever game was World Series,
Speaker 1: and had his lawyer called the news desk at NBC said,
Speaker 1: as Joe's fine, he's right here watching, alive and well.
Speaker 1: We did lose Regis Philbin passed away over the weekend.
Speaker 1: What a wonderful guy. He was always in a great
Speaker 1: mood always and Cherry love talking Notre Dame football. Of course,
Speaker 1: he stole the who wants to be a Millionaire role
Speaker 1: from me, but I got over it eventually. But yeah,
Speaker 1: I was up for that. I was getting that job.
Speaker 1: Met with the guy Michael Davis who made the call,
Speaker 1: and he said, you're going to be the host who
Speaker 1: wants to be a millionaire, and he goes, I gotta
Speaker 1: get Bay, but I gotta get Regis a job. Oh,
Speaker 1: he calls me all the time. I said, all right,
Speaker 1: we'll get Regis a job. I come home, I say
Speaker 1: to my wife, I'm going to host a show called
Speaker 1: Who Wants to be a Millionaire? She goes great, And
Speaker 1: I never heard back from Michael Davies. And the next
Speaker 1: thing I know, I see the show and all of
Speaker 1: a sudden, Regis philbin Is on Who Wants to be
Speaker 1: a Millionaire. But I'm over it. I'm over rest in
Speaker 1: peace region. Yes see. I'll never forget sitting on the
Speaker 1: runway coming back from a Notre Dame game and the
Speaker 1: pilot of the plane says, we'll be taken off here
Speaker 1: momentarily just waiting for Regis to take off. He had
Speaker 1: to be the first guy, first plane off the runway.
Speaker 1: Are waiting for Regis philiping the takeoff and we'll be
Speaker 1: up next. Yeah, yes, time were you were allowed to
Speaker 1: know that who Wants to be a Millionaires? Salary? Unlike
Speaker 1: the prices? Right, No, I didn't even ask about that.
Speaker 1: I never got caught up on salaries. Like if you
Speaker 1: got a chance to do the job, you wanted to do.
Speaker 1: I didn't negotiate my first ESPN contract. They just said
Speaker 1: this is what we're going to pay you, and I go, Great,
Speaker 1: never negotioot because it was what I wanted to do.
Speaker 1: I didn't care. Who wants to be a millionaire? Great?
Speaker 1: But Prices Right was like, Hey, we're not going to
Speaker 1: tell you the salary. If you take the job, then
Speaker 1: we'll tell you the salary. They made a game show
Speaker 1: out of the salary of a game show. It's what
Speaker 1: they do. Yes they do. Yes, No one watch that
Speaker 1: show anyway, Dan, don't worry or Prices Right, Yeah, they're
Speaker 1: too popular. Nobody wanted to watch them. Uh. Do I
Speaker 1: have an update on your house being egg Fritzie? Anybody
Speaker 1: in custody? There's no one in custody just yet. There
Speaker 1: are a few houses that were still waiting to get
Speaker 1: some footage from their little doorbell video camera thing. A
Speaker 1: couple of them came back either too fuzzy or it
Speaker 1: was too dark, because it was like, will you press charges?
Speaker 1: If it's like some nine year old kid that made
Speaker 1: one stay, do you want him to go to prison?
Speaker 1: Maybe just overnight? What's all about it? Let him know
Speaker 1: that you really don't want to go down this path
Speaker 1: in line. No, then you don't want to egg my house.
Speaker 1: Somebody egg Todd's house. I love that. I think we
Speaker 1: are actually grossly underplaying that storyline. Well, and Mini number
Speaker 1: three eggs hit the windows and it's not easy to
Speaker 1: clean that. We had a window cleaner come, you know,
Speaker 1: I'm not going to do it, and he was having trouble,
Speaker 1: you know, collecting the egg shells, and some of the
Speaker 1: yolka got stuck in like in the screen. It's a
Speaker 1: little mess there. I'm not happy about it. Of all
Speaker 1: the puns, bad puns, and then you get the yolkas
Speaker 1: on you. It all comes full circling. Is there this
Speaker 1: day in sports history that I care about? Nineteen eighteen,
Speaker 1: Brooklyn rookie pitcher Harvey Heitman made his major league pitching
Speaker 1: debut a last major League day game in the same
Speaker 1: day he caught. In the game, he pitched a four
Speaker 1: straight Saint Louis Cardinals hitters, all four got bass hits.
Speaker 1: He left the game and never played in the majors again.
Speaker 1: Heitman d stinks Todd. Would you learn on today's program?
Speaker 1: I learned the Yankees pitcher James Paxton is Canadian and
Speaker 1: nicknamed the Big Maple, Big Big Maple. Mclovin. Yeah, I learned.
Speaker 1: There's also the talented oak and the weeping willow and
Speaker 1: the very strong redwood fur for Douglas, for Seaton, would
Speaker 1: you learn today it's a great place for wings named
Speaker 1: Magic City, Polly. You could egg Todd's house and he
Speaker 1: still won't clean anything. Well, what did I learned? Todd?
Speaker 1: You would not let lou Williams back in the bubble
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